Jens Bogren

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Jens Bogren
Born (1979-11-13) 13 November 1979 (age 46) [1]
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Years active2001–present

Jens Peter Daniel Bogren (born 13 November 1979) is a Swedish record producer, mixer and recording engineer specializing in heavy metal music. He has worked on albums by Opeth, Dimmu Borgir, Sepultura, Arch Enemy, At the Gates, Katatonia, Babymetal, Soilwork, James LaBrie, Moonspell, God Forbid, Kreator, Devin Townsend, Ihsahn, Dark Tranquillity, Paradise Lost, Amon Amarth, DragonForce, The Ocean, Haken, Between the Buried and Me, Rotting Christ, Symphony X, Myrath, Angra, Dir En Grey, and Powerwolf, amongst others. Bogren lives in Örebro, Sweden and runs both Fascination Street Studios [2] and Bogren Digital. [3]

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Other ventures

Bogren is the founder of Bogren Digital, a music software company that develops audio plug-ins and virtual instruments based on his production work. Through Bogren Digital, he has collaborated with artists including Trivium , Dimmu Borgir , Dååth , and Slipknot on signature virtual instruments and plug-ins. [4] [5] [6] [7]

He has an educational course with URM Academy titled How It’s Done w/ Jens Bogren, in which he demonstrates his production process by recording and mixing a song with Ihsahn of Emperor . [8] [9]

Bogren has also appeared multiple times on Nail The Mix, where he has deconstructed mixes for artists such as Opeth , Amon Amarth and Between the Buried and Me . [10] [11]

Discography

Release yearArtistAlbumRole
2003 Katatonia Viva Emptiness Mixing
2004 Dionysus Anima Mundi Producer, recording and mixing
Bloodbath Nightmares Made Flesh Producer, engineering [12]
Pain of Salvation BE Producer, mixing [13]
2005 Opeth Ghost Reveries Producer, engineering, mixing and mastering
Soilwork Stabbing the Drama Engineering (additional)
2006 Daylight Dies Dismantling Devotion Mixing
Katatonia The Great Cold Distance Producer, engineering, mixing and mastering
Dionysus Fairytales and Reality Producer, recording and mixing
Amon Amarth With Oden on Our Side Producer, engineering and mixing
2007 Pain of Salvation Scarsick Producer, mixing (assistant) and mastering
Oceans of SadnessMirror PalaceMixing [14]
Symphony X Paradise Lost Mixing
InMe Daydream Anonymous
2008 Eluveitie Slania Producer, recording, mixing and mastering
Draconian Turning Season Within Mixing and mastering
Ihsahn angL Engineering [15]
Daylight Dies Lost to the Living Mixing and mastering
Universum Leto Destinatus Mixing and mastering
Opeth Watershed Producer, recording, mixing and mastering
Opeth Still Life DVD re-releaseMixing
Paradise Lost The Anatomy of Melancholy Mixing and mastering
Amon Amarth Twilight of the Thunder God Producer, engineering, mixing and mastering
Oceans of SadnessThe Arrogance of IgnoranceProducer, mixing and mastering [16]
2009 God Forbid Earthsblood Mixing and mastering
Paradise Lost Faith Divides Us – Death Unites Us Producer, mixing and mastering
Homem MauPelo Lado de Dentro
Gwyllion The Edge of All I KnowProducer, mixing and mastering [17]
Katatonia Night Is the New Day Mastering
Lion's Share Dark HoursMixing and mastering [18]
Swallow the Sun New Moon Producer, engineering, recording, mixing and mastering
Iron Mask Shadow of the Red Baron Mixing and mastering [19]
2010 Ihsahn After Mixing and mastering
Soilwork The Panic Broadcast Mixing and engineering
Pain of Salvation Road Salt One Mastering (track 3) [20]
Slechtvalk A Forlorn Throne Mixing and mastering [21]
James LaBrie Static Impulse Mixing and mastering
DimenssionMundo Diablo
Enslaved Axioma Ethica Odini Mixing
Creation's Tears Methods to End It All Co-producer, mixing and mastering
2011 Universum Mortuus Machina Mixing and mastering
Amon Amarth Surtur Rising Producer, recording, mixing and mastering
Lake of Tears Illwill Mastering
CompilationSmåstadshjärtan
Chaos Divine The Human Connection Mixing and mastering [22]
Myrath Tales of the Sands Mastering
Alpine Fault Iraena's AshesMastering
Symphony X Iconoclast Mixing and mastering
Voyager The Meaning of IMixing and mastering [23]
Draconian A Rose for the Apocalypse Co-producer, recording, mixing and mastering
The Devin Townsend Project Deconstruction Mixing
Leprous Bilateral Mixing and mastering
Opeth Heritage Engineering [24]
Vildhjarta Måsstaden Mastering
2012 Borknagar Urd Mixing and mastering
God Forbid Equilibrium Mixing and mastering
Ihsahn Eremita Mixing and mastering
Be'lakor Of Breath and Bone Mixing and mastering
Kreator Phantom Antichrist Producer, engineering and mixing
Ne Obliviscaris Portal of I Mixing and mastering
Enslaved RIITIIR Mixing
Daylight Dies A Frail Becoming Mixing and mastering
Paradise Lost Tragic Idol Producer and mixing
The HAARP MachineDisclosureMastering
The Safety Fire Grind the Ocean Mastering
Obsidian Kingdom Mantiis Mastering
Witchcraft Legend Producer
Headspace I Am Anonymous
2013 Rotting Christ Κατά τον δαίμονα εαυτού / Kata Ton Daimona Eaytoy (Do What Thou Wilt)Mixing and mastering
Orphaned Land All Is One Mixing and mastering
Until Rain Anthem To CreationMixing and mastering
Soilwork The Living Infinite Producer, mixing and mastering
In Vain Ænigma Mixing
Dark Tranquillity Construct Mixing and mastering
Eyesburn Reality CheckMastering
EmbionL8NCMastering
Leprous Coal Mixing
Lux AeternaEchoes from SilenceMastering
Kalmah Seventh Swamphony Mixing and mastering [25]
Extol Extol Mixing and mastering
James LaBrie Impermanent Resonance Mixing
Haken The Mountain Mixing and mastering
Primitivity Evolution
Ihsahn Das Seelenbrechen Mixing and mastering
The Ocean Pelagial Producer, mixing and mastering
MechanigodRealmsMastering
Daydream XIThe Grand DisguiseCo-producer and mastering
Parasite Inc. Time Tears Down Mastering
Domine NationTitans' RiseMixing [26]
Omb [27] [28] SwineSongMastering
Tria MeraExtinction EPMastering
2014 DragonForce Maximum Overload Producer and mixing
Marty Friedman Inferno Mixing
Arch Enemy War Eternal Mixing and mastering
Total DeathInmerso en la SangreMastering
Haken Restoration Mixing and mastering
At the Gates At War with Reality Mixing and mastering
DerivateDerivate (EP)Mastering [29]
Ne Obliviscaris Citadel Mixing and mastering
Angra Secret Garden Producer and mixing
Triosphere The Heart of the Matter Mixing and mastering
ScribeHail MogamboMastering
2015 Mokoma Elävien kirjoihinMixing
Moonspell Extinct Producer, mixing and mastering
Kontinuum Kyrr Mastering
Enslaved In Times Mixing
Leprous The Congregation Mixing
Between the Buried and Me Coma Ecliptic Mixing
Solstice CoilCommuteMixing
Silent LineShattered ShoresMastering
Powerwolf Blessed & Possessed Mastering
Symphony X Underworld Mixing and mastering
Soilwork The Ride Majestic Mixing and mastering
Amorphis Under the Red Cloud Producer, engineering, mixing and mastering
Dark SymphonicaImmersionMastering
Caligula's Horse Bloom Mastering
Earthside A Dream In StaticMixing and mastering (tracks 1, 6, 7) [30]
Draconian Sovran Mixing and mastering
2016 Borknagar Winter Thrice Mixing and mastering
HiranyaBreathe InMastering
Fleshgod Apocalypse King Mixing and mastering
Rotting Christ Rituals Mixing and mastering
Myrath Legacy Mixing
Babymetal Metal Resistance Mixing
Ihsahn Arktis Mixing and mastering
Haken Affinity Mixing and mastering
Pain of Salvation Remedy Lane Re:Visited Remixing and remastering
Fates Warning Theories of Flight Mixing
Sinsaenum Echoes of the Tortured Mixing and mastering
Stam1na Elokuutio Mixing and mastering
Vola InmazesMastering
Nick Johnston Remarkably HumanMastering
KYROS Vox Humana Mastering
Dark Tranquillity Atoma Mastering
Trees of Eternity Hour of the NightingaleProducer, mixing and mastering
Katatonia The Fall of Hearts Mixing and mastering
2017 Sepultura Machine Messiah Producer, recording, mixing and mastering
Kreator Gods of Violence Producer, recording and mixing
ReplacireDo Not DeviateMastering [31]
Leprous Malina Mixing
Ex Deo The Immortal WarsMixing and mastering
Enslaved E Mixing
Persefone Aathma Mixing and mastering
Soul Enema [32] Of Clans and Clones and ClownsMixing and mastering
Stonelayer [33] [34] StonelayerMastering
Replacire [35] Do Not DeviateMastering
DragonForce Reaching into Infinity Producer and mixing
Daydream XIThe Circus of the Tattered and TornMixing Feedback and Mastering
Marty Friedman Wall of Sound Mixing
Septicflesh Codex Omega Co-producer, mixing and mastering
Arch Enemy Will to Power Mixing and mastering
Caligula's Horse In Contact Mastering
ProspektThe Illuminated SkyMastering
Dark Embrace The Call Of The Wolves Mastering
2018 In Vain CurrentsMixing and mastering
Angra ØMNI Producer, recording and mixing
Orphaned Land Unsung Prophets & Dead Messiahs Mixing
Amorphis Queen of Time Producer, recording and mixing
Between the Buried and Me Automata I, Automata II Mixing and mastering
Ihsahn Ámr Mastering
Dimmu Borgir Eonian Co-producer, engineering and mixing
Sunless DawnTimeweaverMastering
Powerwolf The Sacrament of Sin Producer, engineering, recording and mixing
Purest of PainSolipsisMastering
AcodThe Divine TriumphMastering
The Ocean Phanerozoic I: Palaeozoic Producer and mixing
2019 Swallow the Sun When a Shadow Is Forced into the Light Mixing
Soen Lotus Mastering
Rotting Christ The Heretics Mixing
Myrath Shehili Mixing and mastering (select tracks only)
Anthem Nucleusmixing and mastering
Arch/Matheos Winter EtherealMixing
Eluveitie Ategnatos Mixing
Abandon TimePendulumMastering
TakenUnchainedMastering
Dead JokerAmbiviolentMastering
Suicidal Angels Years of AggressionMixing [36]
Disillusion The Liberation Mastering
Exhorder Mourn the Southern Skies Mixing and mastering
Borknagar True North Mixing and mastering
Total DeathLa Noche Oscura del AlmaMastering
WilderunVeil of ImaginationMastering
Acid Reign The Age Of EntitlementMastering
Insomnium Heart Like a Grave Mixing and mastering
CarcariassPlanet ChaosMastering
2020 Loathe I Let It In and It Took Everything Mastering
Sepultura Quadra Producer, recording and mixing
Psychotic Waltz The God-Shaped Void Mixing and mastering
FERVENTREBIRTHMastering
Caligula's Horse Rise Radiant Mixing and mastering
Ensiferum Thalassic Mixing and mastering
Omega Diatribe MetanoiaMastering
The Ocean Phanerozoic II: Mesozoic / Cenozoic Producer and mixing
Enslaved Utgard Mixing
Dark Tranquility Moment Mixing and mastering
2021 Marty Friedman Tokyo Jukebox 3Mixing
DordeduhHarMastering
Between the Buried and Me Colors II Mixing
Powerwolf Call of the Wild Mixing and mastering
At the Gates The Nightmare of BeingProducer, recording, mixing and mastering
Spiritbox Eternal Blue Mastering
Be'lakor Coherence Mixing
Omnium Gatherum Origin Mixing
Swallow the Sun Moonflowers Mixing
MireA New Found RainMixing and mastering
2022WilderunEpigoneMixing
Amorphis Halo Producer and mixing
Amon Amarth"Put Your Back into the Oar"Producer, [37] recording and mixing [38]
Animals as Leaders Parrhesia Mastering
The Halo Effect Days of the Lost Mixing [39]
Monuments In Stasis Mastering
Ibaraki RashomonMixing and mastering
James LaBrie A Beautiful Shade of GreyMastering
Septicflesh Modern PrimitiveCo-producer, engineering, mixing and mastering
Thornhill HeroineMastering
April Weeps CataclasticMastering
Belphegor The DevilsProducer, mixing and mastering
Revocation NetherheavenMixing and mastering
Disillusion AyamMixing
ScalpelCentury in the BoilpitMastering
2023 Anthem Crimson & Jet BlackProducer, mixing and mastering
Haken Fauna Mixing
Enslaved Heimdal Mixing, Atmos mixing
The Halo Effect"Path of Fierce Resistance"Mixing [40]
Crypta Shades of Sorrow Mastering
breakk.away"I'll See You When the Night Comes"Mastering, Mixing Assistant [41]
Omnium GatherumSlasher (EP)Mixing [42]
breakk.away"OUTSIDE"Mastering, Atmos mixing [43]
Extol Labyrinth of Ill / Exigency (EP)Mixing and mastering [44]
The Halo Effect"The Defiant One"Mixing [45]
Monuments"Nefarious"Mastering
Lamia AntitheusStory of a VampireMixing and mastering[ citation needed ]
2024The Halo Effect"Become Surrender"Mixing [46]
Ihsahn Ihsahn Mixing [47]
Borknagar Fall Mixing [48]
Suicidal Angels Profane PrayerMixing [49]
ExhorderDefectum OmniumMixing and mastering [50]
Ivory TowerHeavy RainMixing [51]
In VainSolemnMixing and mastering [52]
Dååth The DeceiversMixing [53]
Trivium "Ember to Inferno" (Re-recorded)Mixing [54] [55]
Rotting Christ Pro Xristou Mixing [56]
ShrapnelIn GravityProducer, mixing and mastering [57]
ReplacireThe Center That Cannot HoldMixing and mastering [58]
Dark Tranquillity Endtime Signals Mixing and mastering [59]
Ensiferum Winter Storm Mixing and mastering [60]
2025The Halo Effect March of the Unheard Mixing [61]
SepticfleshAmphibians (EP)Producer [62]
Dynazty Game of FacesMixing [63]
Arch Enemy Blood Dynasty Producer, mixing, vocals (choirs) [64]
Eluveitie Ànv Producer, mixing [65]
Behemoth The Shit Ov God Engineering (drums), mixing and mastering [66]
Haken Liveforms: An Evening with Haken Mixing and mastering [67]
The Haunted Songs of Last Resort Mixing and mastering [68]
Between the Buried and Me The Blue Nowhere Mixing [69]
Mors Principium Est Darkness InvisibleMixing [70]
Revocation New Gods, New Masters Mixing and mastering [71]
Testament Para Bellum Mixing [72]
Coroner Dissonance Theory Mixing and mastering [73]
Omnium GatherumMay the Bridges We Burn Light the WayProducer, mixing [74]

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